Amazon shocked the world when it announced it would replace 500,000 workers with robots.

Amazon is embarking on the biggest automation drive in its history, with plans to replace half a million employees with robots over the next decade to save more than $12 billion.

According to the New York Times, Amazon is preparing to replace 500,000 workers with robots in the process of automating up to 75% of its warehouse operations.

This is considered the biggest “labor turning point” in the company’s history, when a series of loading, packaging and operational control positions will be taken over by machines.

Amazon expects this to save $0.03 per order, equivalent to more than $12.6 billion in just the 2025-2027 period.

Instead of massive layoffs, the company will stop recruiting new staff and gradually reduce the number through natural resignations.

At new centers like Shreveport, robotic systems have doubled productivity while halving staff.

Amazon claims that automation does not destroy job opportunities, but creates higher-paying robot technician positions.

However, experts are concerned that ordinary workers will have difficulty adapting, leading to the risk of mass job losses.

With more than 1 million robots operating globally, Amazon is reshaping the labor market, where humans are gradually giving way to machines.

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